Flash Game Site Review: TowerDefence.net

In recent years, the popularity of various free online flash gaming sites has been increasing. Flash offers a wonderful platform for making games to be distributed online and played from within an Internet browser like IE or Firefox. One genre that is gaining in its share of users are tower defense games. Users scour the Internet daily looking for new versions of their favorite tower defense games, or new variations on the tower defense concept.

The basic premise of tower defense games is based on a game within Warcraft III. The user must place towers of various kinds along a path to defend your base. Enemies trying to attack your base, or simply get to the other side of the map that you are playing, arrive in waves. By building and upgrading the various towers that you build the goal is to kill the enemies before they get across the map, but for each one that successfully gets to the end you lose a life. Most games provide gold or money for building new towers or upgradings towers for each enemy that is killed, where harder enemies are worth more money.

As a result of the growing popularity, there have been several websites created that cater specifically to tower defense enthusiasts and not just the general flash gaming community. One such website is www.TowerDefence.net. At the time this article was written the site already boasts over 40 games.

There are several things that I like about this website and give the user a good gaming experience. While the interface is not as fancy as what one might find at AddictingGames.com, it's simple and easily browseable pages make finding the game you are looking for a snap. You can even choose to play a random game from among the listing of games if you are looking for a change of pace.

The site tracks the number of times each game was played, as well as a user voted rating of the game from 1 to 5. This gives users a way to find out which games are the most popular so that they do not have to play every game on the site to find the best ones. The site also has forums and tips for users to discuss and master their favorite games. I have found no problems with the speed of the website or the visual quality of the games on the site.

The webmaster updates the site with new games every few weeks, or more often depending on how often games are created and posted to the web. The fuel for sites like this are the users. The more users are out there playing these tower defense games, the more developers are going to invest their time into making these games better and more full featured.

Happy gaming.....